GBurch1@aol.com wrote:
> [...]. Sometimes I feel sorry for the kids today that don't have a system
> as straightforward and susceptible to mastery by dogged rational
> self-application as a classic American V-8 with a carburetor and
mechanical
> ignition. Some of the most rewarding moments of my life came with the
"aha"
> experience of figuring out how to make that old 289 run again after I'd
> wrecked it.
Sometimes I feel the same way about people starting working with computers
more recently, as the underlying complexity of "operating systems" (insert
several hundred pages of the Windows/MSIE integration debate to explain
those quote marks) - there was something special about working on a machine
and knowing, or being able to know without spending years on learning the
intricacies of a very complex interrelated system like a modern OS,
everything about what was happening on the computer you were working on.
Then I look at what's going on in the Linux community and stop feeling like
an old wistful fart. Way way too young for that yet!
/rs
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